Adonis (disambiguation)

Adonis is a hero in Greek mythology.

Adonis may also refer to:

Places

 * Adonis, Missouri, USA
 * Adonis, West Virginia, USA
 * Adonis River or Abraham River, a river in Lebanon
 * 2101 Adonis, a near-Earth asteroid

People with the name

 * Adonis (musician), house music pioneer
 * Adunis (born 1930), Syrian poet
 * ADONXS, Slovak singer-songwriter

Surnamed

 * Adrian Adonis or Keith Franke (1954–1988), American professional wrestler
 * Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis (born 1963), British politician
 * Bernard Adonis, a member of the National Assembly of Seychelles
 * Joe Adonis (1902–1971), New York mobster
 * Neil Adonis (born 1969), South African baseball player

Given named

 * Adonis Alexander (born 1996), American football player
 * Adonis Medina (born 1996), Dominican baseball player
 * Adonis Stevenson (born 1977), Haitian-Canadian professional boxer
 * Adonis Thomas (born 1993), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
 * Adonis Kapsalis (born 1980) greek-american Actor

Fictional characters

 * Adonis "Donnie" Creed, protagonist of the film Creed and its sequel
 * Adonis, a fictional character from Dyosa
 * Adonis Otogari, singer from Ensemble Stars!
 * Adonis, a minor character in the Teen Titans animated series

Transportation

 * USS Adonis, a US Navy ship name
 * USS Adonis, a United States Navy landing craft repair ship
 * HMS Adonis, a British Royal Navy ship name
 * HMS Adonis, a British Royal Navy schooner
 * Adonis class schooners, a class of Royal Navy vessels
 * Adonis, a wooden brigantine built at Jervis Bay, New South Wales

Technology

 * ADONIS (software), a business process analysis tool
 * KL-7 or ADONIS, a cipher machine
 * ADONIS, an adaptive optics system on the ESO 3.6 m Telescope

Biology

 * Adonis (plant), a genus in the plant family Ranunculaceae


 * Species called adonis
 * Acanthicus adonis (A. adonis), a species of catfish
 * Ancistrobasis adonis (A. adonis), a species of sea snail
 * Asaphodes adonis (A. adonis), a species of moth
 * Astrophanes adonis (A. adonis), a species of beefly
 * Atheniella adonis (A. adonis), a species of mushroom
 * Brettus adonis (B. adonis), a species of spider
 * Carinodrillia adonis (C. adonis), a species of sea snail
 * Chrysoritis adonis (C. adonis), a species of butterfly
 * Adonis tetra (L. adonis), a species of fish
 * Macaria adonis (M. adonis), a species of moth
 * Macrocneme adonis (M. adonis), a species of moth
 * Mahatha adonis (M. adnois), a species of crab
 * Micrixalus adonis (M. adonis), a species of frog
 * Morpho adonis (M. adonis), a species of butterfly
 * Mycena adonis (M. adonis), a species of fungus
 * Phanaeus adonis (P. adonis), a species of beetle
 * Psaltoda adonis (P. adonis), a species of cicada
 * Suillellus adonis (S. adonis), a species of fish

Other uses

 * Adonis (musical), an 1884 burlesque musical
 * Adonis (cocktail), a cocktail named after the musical
 * Marché Adonis, a grocery store chain in Quebec and Ontario, Canada
 * Adonis (band), a Lebanese indie band